Corn producers know that corn is most vulnerable to insects pressures within the first four weeks. For that reason, pre-plant herbicide burndown applications and other integrated pest management practices are key to a successful crop.
Seed treatments are important
Alabama Cooperative...
• By Mitch Williams •
In order to achieve optimum corn yields, we need to get the corn crop off to a good start. Dr. Ron Heiniger, North Carolina State Extension corn specialist, has done much research over the past...
Weed management is a year-round job, but producers take special care to make sound management decisions prior to planting— including cover crop burndown.
David Russell, an Alabama Extension weed scientist, offers suggestions for planting into a weed-free field and maintaining...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
As world markets slowly unfurl from the global knot of the COVID-19 pandemic, futures markets for both soybean and corn responded in a powerfully positive manner March 31 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates the nation's growers will plant 91.1 million acres of corn in 2021, less than 1% more than they did in 2020.
Compared with last year, planted acreage is expected to...
Corn and soybean producers know that an essential part of pest management is crop scouting. This subject is as vast as the tasks associated with it, and the benefits are evident to farmers. The Crop Protection Network has released...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Early planting appears to be making a return to Arkansas in 2021.
With the start of the recommended planting window for corn and soybeans less than two weeks away, anecdotal reports from growers and Cooperative Extension...
The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Vayantis fungicide seed treatment from Syngenta for use on corn and soybeans.
It contains the active ingredient picarbutrazox, a completely new active ingredient that targets key blight and damping-off diseases, such as Pythium and...
Texas row crop producers might have the luxury of choosing between sorghum, corn and cotton as all three commodities are seeing high prices with the 2021 planting season underway, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Dr. Mark...
The days of manually calculating numbers on spreadsheets to determine how much liquid fertilizer should be used to fertigate row crops may soon be gone, thanks to a new web-based calculator from Clemson University.
The Clemson Center Pivot Fertigation Calculator...
• By Larry Steckel •
Ready or not, burndown season is here! There has been very little burndown applied to date. Weather permitting, some would like to start corn planting before April 1.
A potential short turnaround time from burndown to...
Two researchers in Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have received a $499,865 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture to study corn resistance mechanisms against the insect pests, the...
The Environmental Protection Agency recently registered Syngenta's Acuron GT, a post-emergence herbicide for use on glyphosate-tolerant corn. State registrations are pending.
Acuron GT combines the active ingredients in Halex GT corn herbicide — glyphosate, mesotrione and S-metolachlor — with the...
• By Ronnie Schnell •
Recent cold weather has affected newly planted, emerging or emerged corn or sorghum throughout south and central Texas.
Corn and sorghum will experience similar types of injury although tolerance to low temperatures does differ between the...
• By Mary Hightower •
A week of record-low temperatures may leave its mark on Arkansas’ fire ant populations, but don’t look for the cold to have reduced fly or tick numbers, Kelly Loftin, Extension entomologist for the University of...
